The [Della Pietra, Della Pietra, Lafferty] reference above also formally
introduces the improved iterative scaling algorithm, a procedure for
computing maximum-likelihood estimates of the parameters in a maxent
distribution.

Applications

The proceedings of the yearly conference Maximum Entropy and Bayesian
Methods has been published by Kluwer for at least the last ten years and
always contains interesting applications of maxent to areas as diverse as
portfolio optimization, signal processing, nuclear physics, and, of all things,
the ``two envelope'' paradox.

A. Ratnaparkhi.
A maximum entropy part of speech tagger
Proceedings of the conference on empirical methods in natural language
processing, May 1996, University of Pennsylvania.
(Adwait has done applied maxent to several problems in natural language
processing; see his web
page for a more complete list.